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The ingredients that make a Kansas City-style sauce — molasses, all spice, cloves and mustard — needed to be toned down so the subtle flavors of the whiskey aged in sherry barrels comes through.

“We wanted a KC-style sauce to know it was from KC, but (we needed a sauce) that wasn’t as intense as Joe’s Original,” Taylor says.

And from the whiskey, “we tried to really capture the barrel aspect. Since the whiskey is aged in sherry barrels, it has a lighter flavor,” he says.

The result is a sauce that is “not real boozy” and “warm” with “notes of oak and vanilla.”

The sauce will go on sale Dec. 1 at the J. Rieger Whiskey Co. distillery tasting room at 2700 Guinotte Ave., the original Joe’s Kansas City gas station location at 3002 W. 47th St. and at The Kansas City BBQ Store at 11922 S. Strang Line Road in Olathe.

Just in time for holiday gift-giving, the limited-edition sauce collaboration yielded only 980 bottles. The hand-labeled 375-milliliter (15-ounce) bottles, similar to a Rieger whiskey bottles, sell for $14.99.